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THE INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
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BUIILB NOW!
More Americans Should Own Their Own Homes
Somewhere in the heart of every man is the desire
to be INDEPENDENT. Independence is the measure
of one's standing in the community.
The first step along the road to independence is to
own one's home. The man who owns his own home is
the respected, the trusted man in every commumty.
Oneof the largest employers of labor m the country
ordered a canvass of his factories to determine what
percentage of his employees owned their own homes.
At the same time he urged all employees m the estabr
lishment to become home owners or home buyers.
Sound logic prompted this action. rpe
man is the valuable employee. The HOME OWNER
has a deeper sense of civic pride. He is established;
he is responsible; he is interested m everything that
tends toward the peace and security, and upbuilding or
the community.
The example set by one manufacturer will be fol
lowed by others. It will daily become more requisite
to a man's securing responsible employment that he
Owns His Own Home.
There is little excuse for a man not owning his own
home. The greafLiberty Loans have instilled into the
American people lessons of thrift that will endure
through the coming days of peace. Every man can and
should own his own home.
There is no appeal from the man who seeks a posi
tion that is treated so lightly, by private and public
employer alike, as the appeal which comes from the
man who has everything to gain and nothing to lose.
The INDEPENDENT MAN always Owns His Own
Home BUILD YOURS NOW.
Kramer Hi os. Co
Elizabeth City, N. C
NOTICE!
Section 3001 of the laws of North
Carolina requires all secondaries
to be grounded in accordance
with the National Electric Code.
Section 3484 makes violation a
misdemeanor with a fine of not
less than $100.00 and not more
than $500.00.
This is required as safe-guard to
life and property. We have com
plied with this requirement and
haye grounded all our second
aries. If you have grounds in
your house circuits, be sure to
have them corrected, as they will
result in increasing your light
bills or blowing your fuses, pos
sibly both.
ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.
of Elizabeth City
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GENERAL PRODUCE
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AT HOME AND ABROAD
A Review and Interpretation of
Current Events as Seen by
Q. W. PASCHAL
PEACE TERMS Terribly severe is
FOR GERMANY about the mildest
word that can be "applied to the terms
of peace which the representatives of
the allied nations, handed to the. uer-
man plenipotentiaries at Paris on May
7. The question is whether they are
also jusL. Germans of all classes are
howlinj? against them. . "If that is
peace that the American people think
lust", the great German general, Lutt
endorff. is reported as saying, "tell
them to go to hell". With one accordJ
German papers representing every poll
tlcal Darty declares the conditions of
f ered too hard to bear. ' But we shall
know better when we look at the terms
nffpred under four or five aspects.-
First. Germany is required to give
up her great army and navy and her
ammunition plants. There must be
no conscriptions. Germany's army in
the future, is to -contairi only 100,000
men and officers. Her navy is to con
sist of no more than six small battle
ships, six small cruisers, and twelve
tornedo boats: without a submarine
Germany must dismantle Heligoland,
and not build any fortresses nearer
the Rhine than 55 miles. She must
hnild no forts on the Baltic Sea. Her
military system is to be so arranged
that there can be no trained reserves
out of which to construct an army. In
short. Germany is expected to disarm
and give up her dreams of world con
quest. She must devote herself to the
arts and industries of peace. Among
the militarists .and the war party or
Germany possibly this is the bitterest
nart of the treaty.
But in reality it will doubtless prove
an untold blessing for Germany. It
will save the enormous sums of money
heretofore spent on Germany s big
military and navy system, will eman
cipate the German young men from
three years of compulsory military
training and put these three years to
the creation of wealth. Further it will
free German society from the over
bearing insolence of men in uniform
Accordingly the disarmament of Ger
many may well prove for Germany s
erood.
Next consider the matter of territory
Germany gives up her colonies entire
Rhs e-ivps back Alsace-Lorraine, the
tro.vinces taken from France in 1870
She also gives up much territory to
Poland and must consent in letting the
Poles use Danzig on the Baltic as a
seaport. Schleswig. a Danish province,
is to be restored to Denmark, and a
small bit of territory here and therje
f to be riven to Belguim. There is
nothing in all this that the world Will
not think just. But there is one point
in which the justice of the treaty is
seriously open to question, and that is
the disposition made, of the Saare val
ley. This is a little district lying next
to Lorraine and is not bigger than a
North Carolina county. But it is high
ly "desirable because it contains the
richest coal mines in Germany. The
French delegates have made a 'most
insistent fight for the annexation of this
district to France. They say that tne
Germans destroyed the French coal
mines at Lens, and that the only just
requital is to give the French the Ger
man coal producing district. Unless
this is done, they say, Germany would
have all the advantage economically
of France. But the Saare Valley is in
no sense French. It is as much Ger
man as any 'part of Germany. Yet
France has claimed it and got it, for
though it is to be internationalized ror
15 years and after that its fate decided
by. a ..vote, of .. its w people, every t ,one
knows that this is o,nly a "specious pre
tense of doing the .fair thing, tin real
ity Germany is jbeing robbed of this
rich territory; in much the' same' way
as France was robbed of Alsace and
Lorraine in 1870. Some better way
nueht to have been found to pay
France for the destruction of her coal
mint s around Lens.
Next comes reparations. Germany
must pay "to the extent of her ability
some 25 billion dollars first and last.
This is a big sum but not excessive.
Germany can pay it and that without
anv great difficulty. Another item in
the reparations is that Germany must
replace the shipping destroyed by her
submarines, ton for ton. This is severe
but rieht. The German submarine vio
lation, of the laws of humanity ought
to be most severely punished.
Again Germany must give up for
trial the leaders of the unlawful war
fare of Germany and consent to the
extradition of the Kaiser from Holland.
Thoe responsible for war cruelties
practised in defiance of international
law are to be brought to the bar of
justice.
Such is the peace offered Germany.
In general it is a just peace. It is sev
ere enough to make a war of wanton
cruelty and destruction odious to the
German people who gavesuch a war
their support for four years.. The
peace terms . ought to be a sufficient
warning to them not to learn justice
and not to defy Heaven.
ITALY AND According to the terms
JAPAN of the Treaty of Peace
Japan gets the former German hold
ings in China including the whole
Shantung province. . China stronerlv
protests and her delegates refuse to!
sign the treaty saying that the conces-j
sion of their territory to Janan is in
clear violation of President "Wilson's!
Fourteen Points. It is said that Mr
Wilson consented to Japan's claim for.
this portion ot China in order to keei
Japan from withdrawing from the
Peace Conference, somewhat as Italy
had done. The friends of Italy were
not slow, to point out the inconsistency
of Mr. "Wilson in his insistence that
Italy must give up Flume, a city al
ready more . than half Italian, while
consenting to Janan taking the terrl
tory of China, an allied country. The
Italian delegates . have . returned to
Paris and it now seems probable that
Italy will get "Flume after all.
MAKING All true Americans will
AMERICANS approve the suggestion
or mr. iv p, Claxton, u. S. Commission
er of Education that the : beat wav in
make Americans of foreign residents
is to teach them the English language.
Sneaking before the national conrer-
ence on Americanization on May 12
he said that only English shouia oe
used in the Elementary schools. Al
ready some of our states with a large
foreign element have enacted laws ior
bidding' the use of foreign languages
in their public schools. Such laws
were once resisted. Now they have the
weight of an overwhelming puduc
opinion.
THE VI CTO R Y . That the people of
i ft a n the United States
have unbounded confidence in the
future of their country, that they have
civic pride and patriotism, that they
heartily approve the conduct pi me
war and of the neace negotiations and
koir . crreal ' reserves of
bilctt. fcfaJ' uavv o
nraaith maw vo fpn from the readi
ness with which they oversuDscnoeu
the Viotnr-v Tan. Mr. Carter Glass,
Secretary of' the Treasury, asked for
four billion the country subscribed
neariv si hiiiions. Mr. Glass had the
good sense to . make the bonds very
desirable because of a high rate or in
terest. The'holders of them 'are ror-tunate.
CONGRESS TO President Wilson has
MEET MAY 19 called a special ses
sion of Oone-ress to meetvon May 19.
Matters pertaining to the Peace Treaty
win be the main business oi tnis con
gress. In the first place the Senate
must ratify the Treaty. This it will
rio Teae-ne of Nations and all, though
it is possible some windy discussions
win taice piace to urc sc,.
of the public printer and the general
public. But when it comes to a snuw-
rlown even the most rabid or resi
dent JWilson's opponents will hesitate
to vote ne-ninst ratification. Again
Congress' must enact suitable legisla
tion to enable our country to assume
the duties and responsibilities entail
ed hv the terms of the Treatyr in au
dition Congress will be expected to
pass several supply bills wnicn ianea
in the Senate at the last, session. With
the beginning of this hew session the
South, so to speak, gets out or tne
saddle. The North has long been cnai-
ing at the thought that it has been
southern statesmanship that has di
rected the country in the critical times
of the past six years. But they have
had little reason for their chafing ex
cept their own jealousy.' The fact is
that the south has nothing to be
ashamed of in her leadership. Prep
aration was made by the passage of
a sensible tariff and income tax law in
the very first months of Mr. Wilson's
administration. And better than all of
this a good banking and currency law
was put on our statute books. With
it we have weathered all the finan
cial storms of the past five years wfth
no sicn of rnic. When we come to
the war, the congressional innovation
was the Selective Draft Act. Not only
has it proved democratic both in its j
terms and application, but it was the.
one thing needful to defeat Germany.
What a blessing for our country that
the leaders of House and Senate in
the time of thiel needed legislation
were from COOd Old JNOrtn wruuua
rather than from some northern state
with a large and influential foreign
element.
Called a Camisole. 9
The invariable subject-was being
discussed in a car ltween two men.
Said the first: "I get on with every
thing bar the meat, and that's most-.
lv too touch fcr me to manage. VThe
meat's all righf at our house," rejoined
the second; "they learned my girl
cookery at school, and she gets the
meat quite tender in a French cook
ing pot they call a camisole."
r.ount 'Cm Aaain. Old Top!
From an English story : "Hell have
ever a dice 2us four sides." Boston
Transcript.
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27.00
Tubes
$2.75 r
325
3.50
4.50
4.75
5.00
33x4
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satisfied return them at our ex
pense. ' When ordering be sure
and state whether clincher- or
straight side is wanted. -
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220 Bank St, NORFOLK, VA.
COUNTRY PEOPLE
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use our phone. And if you
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OLD FAIR GROUNDS
Li
eft City?
Ainid
May
30 aiii 31
The Fastest Horses Ever Brought to Elizabeth City
27 High Class Racers Already Entered for two Races
2:25 Pace Stake - - Purse $4W
Thirteen High Class Race Horses Will Start; Every
One Already
2:25 Trot Stake - - , , J?xnse$4W
Fourteen High Class Race Horses Entered For
Free For All. Trot or; Pace
; Purse $300
2:25 Pace or Trot for Local Horses Purse $50
spor liorses owned in Pasquotank and five adjoining counties
No money deducted from money winners. $10 to enter.
Local Trot or Pace - - Purse $50
For. horses never trained or raced and to be driven by owners
No money deducted from money winners
ALL RACES MILE HEATS - 3 HEATS A RACE
EVENING ATTRACTION 7:30 P.M. to 10:30 P.M.
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The first horse racing under electric lights ever
pulled off in Eastern North Carolina. Track will be
brilliantly lighted with scores of electric lights aug
mented by ttj big bonfire in the center of the track.
Mule Running Race, open to all
;No charge to enter -
1st Prize $10
2nd Prize $ 5
Matinee Races, b arranged
later. All entries close May 25,
ADM IS S I O N :
Afternoon, Ackilts 50c. Chfldren Under 12 Free
C, .. -No Extras
Grand Stand Free No"CKarge For Parking Autos
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